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ADAM SMITH'S OPTIMISTIC TELEOLOGICAL VIEW OF HISTORY
No full textAdam Smith's four-stage theory provides the framework for his writings on history. The fourth stage is the commercial epoch; the culmination of history in this stage is a key component in the conventional interpretation of Adam Smith as a prophet of commercialism. In two historical case studies Smith shows the capacity of commercial society to regenerate itself. This potent capacity suggests that commercial society is inevitable. At a certain point in time it also overcomes the major obstacles to its permanence. Smith's philosophy of history anticipates the end of history views of Kant and Hegel.Political Economy,
How Might Adam Smith Pay Professors Today?
No full textAdam Smith’s proposal for paying professors was intended to induce increased faculty knowledge. If students have imperfect information about what they learn, and universities can only imperfectly measure the input of faculty time in student learning, publications may be used to measure faculty knowledge. If professors’ ability to publish is positively related to their ability to produce student learning, which universities can imperfectly measure, publications may be necessary to attract more able professors. Since research signals faculty knowledge, schools that do not value publications per se could require higher publication standards and pay higher wages than schools that value only publications.
THE THEOLOGICAL FOUNDATION OF ADAM SMITH'S WORK
No full textThe paper will discuss the theological foundation to Smith's writings. Teleology, final causes and divine design were initially seen as central to understanding Smith's writings. Over time, this view fell out of fashion. In the period after World War II, with the rise of positivism, commentators tended to overlook or downplay this interpretation. In the last decade, or so, teleology has started to be restored to its former position as an essential element in understanding Smith. After spelling out Smith's teleology and his view of final causes, divine design and the ends of nature, we try to explain the Panglossian nature of the 'new theistic view' of Smith. While our view differs somewhat, we agree with the essence of the 'new view' claim: a theological view exists in Smith which underpins his moral and economic theories.Political Economy,
Adam Bede: Author, Narrator and Narrative
No full textReaders of novels seem to have a natural, almost instinctive, tendency to perceive the voices of the author and the omniscient narrator as being one and the same. This tendency is even stronger when the narrator is blatantly intrusive, frequently inserting his own opinions into the objective narrative material of the novel. And although there are certainly some novelists who truly intend their narrative voices to be perceived as their own, this is not the case with George Eliot in Adam Bede.
In analyzing the narrative voice in this particular novel, I was struck by the almost total agreement, on the part of the critics, that there is a distinction in Eliot\u27s work between the author and the narrator. In fact, Barbara Hardy goes one step further and makes a case for a third category, discriminating between characters who tell their stories, the narrator who does everything but tell his or her story, and the reticent author whose name never appeared on the cover or title-page.! For the purposes of this study, I will be using categories which are basically parallel to Hardy\u27s, though my third category differs somewhat: (1) the author - Mary Ann Evans, (2) the narrator - George Eliot, and (3) the narrative itself.
Any serious student of English literature knows that \u27George Eliot\u27 is the pseudonym for Mary Ann Evans, but the fact was hardly common knowledge to the readers of Adam Bede in 1859. The newly-published novel was an immediate success, selling thirteen thousand copies in the first year, and two thousand copies in the first month alone. A comment by Elizabeth Gaskell, the Victorian novelist and biographer of Charlotte Bronte, humorously reflects both the mystery of the author and the popularity of the novel: \u27I have had the greatest compliment paid me I ever had in my life. I have been suspected of having written Adam Bede\u27.2 While I do not wish to elaborate on the historical facts surrounding the mystery of the author hiding behind this pen name, it is important to try to understand why Mary Ann Evans chose to let George Eliot narrate Adam Bede, rather than speaking through her own authorial voice.
The use of pseudonyms has been fairly common practice throughout the history of English literature, particularly among female writers who felt the need to disguise themselves behind a man\u27s name. Just a decade earlier, the Bronte sisters had published novels and a book of poetry in the names of Acton, Currer and Ellis Bell. Pseudonyms create a situation in which the relationship between the author and the work is reserved, and the fiction creates a reality, rather than reality creating fiction. Or as Michael Ginsburg explains it, \u27The author who chooses to use a pseudonym wants to upset the normal relationship according to which he is the father of his works; he wants to be himself an offspring of his own imagination
Adam Bede: Author, Narrator and Narrative
No full textReaders of novels seem to have a natural, almost instinctive, tendency to perceive the voices of the author and the omniscient narrator as being one and the same. This tendency is even stronger when the narrator is blatantly intrusive, frequently inserting his own opinions into the objective narrative material of the novel. And although there are certainly some novelists who truly intend their narrative voices to be perceived as their own, this is not the case with George Eliot in Adam Bede.
In analyzing the narrative voice in this particular novel, I was struck by the almost total agreement, on the part of the critics, that there is a distinction in Eliot\u27s work between the author and the narrator. In fact, Barbara Hardy goes one step further and makes a case for a third category, discriminating between characters who tell their stories, the narrator who does everything but tell his or her story, and the reticent author whose name never appeared on the cover or title-page.! For the purposes of this study, I will be using categories which are basically parallel to Hardy\u27s, though my third category differs somewhat: (1) the author - Mary Ann Evans, (2) the narrator - George Eliot, and (3) the narrative itself.
Any serious student of English literature knows that \u27George Eliot\u27 is the pseudonym for Mary Ann Evans, but the fact was hardly common knowledge to the readers of Adam Bede in 1859. The newly-published novel was an immediate success, selling thirteen thousand copies in the first year, and two thousand copies in the first month alone. A comment by Elizabeth Gaskell, the Victorian novelist and biographer of Charlotte Bronte, humorously reflects both the mystery of the author and the popularity of the novel: \u27I have had the greatest compliment paid me I ever had in my life. I have been suspected of having written Adam Bede\u27.2 While I do not wish to elaborate on the historical facts surrounding the mystery of the author hiding behind this pen name, it is important to try to understand why Mary Ann Evans chose to let George Eliot narrate Adam Bede, rather than speaking through her own authorial voice.
The use of pseudonyms has been fairly common practice throughout the history of English literature, particularly among female writers who felt the need to disguise themselves behind a man\u27s name. Just a decade earlier, the Bronte sisters had published novels and a book of poetry in the names of Acton, Currer and Ellis Bell. Pseudonyms create a situation in which the relationship between the author and the work is reserved, and the fiction creates a reality, rather than reality creating fiction. Or as Michael Ginsburg explains it, \u27The author who chooses to use a pseudonym wants to upset the normal relationship according to which he is the father of his works; he wants to be himself an offspring of his own imagination
The Music of New Orleans
No full textA conversation with Jason Berry, author of City of A Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300 (UNC 2018), and clarinetist Dr. Michael White, moderated by Georgetown Professor Adam Rothman, and hosted by the Center for the Study of Slavery and its Legacies
Michael of Ephesus. A Commentator of Aristotle and a Thinker
No full textThe article examines the state of research on Michael of Ephesus as a probable author of the Commentaries on Metaphysics E–N, mainly the works of Leonardo Tarán and Concetta Luna. In spite of their opposed views (Tarán rejects Michael’s authorship of the commentaries, while Luna supports it), they both agree on the mediocrity of the Byzantine author. The article questions the criteria for this negative appraisal and offers some material for reconsidering Michael of Ephesus’ idea of philosophical culture.The article examines the state of research on Michael of Ephesus as a probable author of the Commentaries on Metaphysics E–N, mainly the works of Leonardo Tarán and Concetta Luna. In spite of their opposed views (Tarán rejects Michael’s authorship of the commentaries, while Luna supports it), they both agree on the mediocrity of the Byzantine author. The article questions the criteria for this negative appraisal and offers some material for reconsidering Michael of Ephesus’ idea of philosophical culture
Adam. Zur Relecture eines alttestamentlichen Motivs in neutestamentlichen Texten
No full textAfter a short preliminary remark on the function of Adam in the Old Testament (Adam as a collective topic and as a person: the "first man") the author presents a short history of reception in early Judaism (the creation of Adam, his glory and his sin) as well as a display of this motive in the New Testament, with a distinct analysis of 1Tim 2:13-14. The article concludes with a short look on "Adam" in the Gnosis and in the Islam
Distorting Adam Smith on Trade
No full textThe author argues that neoliberal economists incorrectly use Adam Smith as their source of inspiration for current views about outsourcing and the distribution of income. Whether or not Smith was right, he was not indifferent to the consequences of either foreign investment or the inequality of income.
Computing Lyndon Arrays
No full textThere are at least two reasons to have an efficient algorithm for identifying all maximal Lyndon substrings in a string: first, in 2015, Bannai et al. introduced a linear algorithm to compute all runs in a string that relies on knowing all maximal Lyndon substrings of the input string, and second, in 2017, Franek et al. showed a linear co-equivalence of sorting suffixes and sorting maximal Lyndon substrings of a string (inspired by a novel suffix sorting algorithm of Baier).
In 2016, Franek et al. presented a brief overview of algorithms for com- puting the Lyndon array that encodes the knowledge of maximal Lyndon substrings of the input string. It discussed four different algorithms. Two known algorithms for computing the Lyndon array: a quadratic in-place algorithm based on iterated Duval’s algorithm for Lyndon factorization and a linear algorithmic scheme based on linear suffix sorting, computing the inverse suffix array, and applying the NSV (Next Smaller Value) algorithm. The overview also discusses a recursive version of Duval’s algorithm with a quadratic complexity and an algorithm emulating the NSV approach with a possible O(n log(n)) complexity. The authors at that time did not know of Baier’s algorithm. In 2017, Paracha proposed in her Ph.D. thesis an algorithm for the Lyndon array. The proposed algorithm was interesting as it emulated Farach’s recursive approach for computing suffix trees in linear time and introduced τ-reduction; which might be of independent interest.
This was the starting point of this Ph.D. thesis. The primary aim is: (a) developing, analyzing, proving correct, and implementing in C++ a linear algorithm for computing the Lyndon array based on Baier’s suffix sorting; (b) analyzing, proving correct, and implementing in C++ the algorithm proposed by Paracha; and (c) empirically comparing the performance of these two algorithms with the iterative version of Duval’s algorithm.DissertationDoctor of Philosophy (PhD
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